Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:14:49 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, freebsd stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xargs broken Message-ID: <p05111707b9454db868a0@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020630233703.GA52780@gits.dyndns.org>
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At 1:37 AM +0200 7/1/02, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: ># cd /usr ># xargs ls -d < /tmp/p >xargs: ls: Argument list too long There was someone who reported something similar a few weeks ago, I think it was, and he later reported that the problem went away when he switched shells. This seemed rather odd to me, because I would not expect the shell to matter, but I couldn't reproduce the problem at the time. (not that I tried very hard after he reported that it was working for him). I let the messages about that sit in my mailbox until sometime last week, when I decided I could delete them because no one else had reported the problem... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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